> ncorporated a lot of countries in the last 30 years, some of them Every of those countries was in a better shape than China, when it started the transition t

> ncorporated a lot of countries in the last 30 years, some of them Every of those countries was in a better shape than China, when it started the transition to a market economy. > Free healthcare, good quality public education, cheaper and or subsidized housing You do understand that those (highly desirable) goods need to be paid for, and in the past have been paid for by the economic success of the successful EU countries like the Netherlands, etc. But even those have been loosing their competitive edge more and more vis-a-vis China and the US. Loss of access to cheap Russian energy will make this worse. With economic decline those niceties will wither, too ...